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Are there countries out there with good right-to-repair laws? How does Colorado now stand up on the international scale?
by vvpan 3y ago
Are there countries out there with good right-to-repair laws? How does Colorado now stand up on the international scale?
- eitland 3y agoI think EU is getting there. One recent win: Nintendo has agreed to lifetime replacement of Switch controllers, and while they or their reseller tried to weasel their way out of it by demanding sales receipts, consumer authorities has already pointed out the ridiculousness of it as every single one of them are eligible for replacement anyway.
- lithos 3y agoIndia has beaten down patents on seeds/genotypes. Lays tried to sue a few potatoe farmers, when they saw they were destined to lose the case they withdrew it, Gov't realizing they weren't going to get the case law to fix the issue decided to just outright invalidate a bunch of the patents.
- userbinator 3y agoChina. I'm only half-joking. Not really a law, but their attitude towards IP means that you can find schematics and parts (many of them aftermarket) for tons of equipment there.